13 March 2016

Takarakuji de 40 Oku Atattanda kedo Isekai ni Ijuusuru. Chapter 36

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The
Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan

The Editor:

Mantius Zara

Chapter 36: The Worried
Noble’s Preparation

Kazura followed Isaac and arrived at the front of a tent.

The tent was large, in Japanese terms it was 6 Jou[1], with a square
configuration.

Maybe there was a pillar erected in the middle of the tent since the tent
ceiling was in triangular shape so that it wouldn’t be weighted down by the
collected water when it rains.

Beside this tent, several other tents were pitched in the surroundings;
each of them had the same large size of this tent.

Furthermore, there were still a lot of tents being pitched in the
surroundings, so it was clear that the tent in front of him was the first one
to be pitched.

「This is the tent.」(Isaac)

Isaac spoke this, opened the thick cloth in the entrance of the tent and entered
inside.

Kazura’s group also followed suit and entered the tent.

「Whoa…… Amazing……」(Valetta)

Seeing the spectacles that spread out in front of their eyes when they entered
the tent, Valetta leaked out words of admiration.

It wasn’t surprising since inside the tent had a superior quality animal
fur spread out on a simple wooden bed that was installed on the side of the
tent while in the middle of the tent was a long table and couches.

In addition, a lantern with a burning candle inside it was suspended in the
ceiling from the pillar.

The tent’s interior was illuminated by the soft light from the candle. If
it was only for a trifling job then there wouldn’t be a problem with this
brightness.

For an ordinary person of this world, when making a camp, it was usual for
them to sleep in open air. Excluding the facility like the resting lodge where
Kazura and group stayed previously, it was quite rare for an ordinary person to
be able to rest in such a wonderful environment.

「Then we will quickly deliver the meal. After the meal we will prepare cloth
mats for two persons, feel free to use it.」(Isaac)

Isaac spoke this and bowed towards Kazura before exiting the tent.

Kazura saw Isaac off and put the travel bag that carried his luggage on the
floor and *phew* let out a sigh.

「Whew, this place is quite comfortable. If they carry so many of these
tents, the wagon would surely become filled.」(Kazura)

「That’s true. But if we sleep inside this tent we won’t need to be worried
about the cold night.」(Valetta)

Kazura and his group were conversing like this for several minutes, until a
voice called out to them from outside the tent.

「I have come with the meal.」(Soldier)

Somehow, a tint of nervousness could be heard from the voice.

Kazura gave them permission to enter and then after saying, “excuse me”,
two young soldiers entered the tent and brought together a new long table and couches
from the outside and put them near the already placed long table and couches in
the tent.

The two soldiers arranged the old and new tables and chairs so that the tables
were facing each other. Then they deeply bowed towards Kazura before leaving
the tent.

As the two soldiers left, in exchange this time another three soldiers
entered while carrying a wooden tray with the meal with both of their hand.

The three soldiers nimbly placed the wooden tray with the meal on the table
and just like the previous two soldiers, bowed deeply to Kazura before exiting
the tent.

After Kazura confirmed that the soldiers had left the tent, he looked at
the meal they had brought in.

「Is this their combat ration?」(Kazura)

While giving his impression in cheerful voice, he took out his digital
camera from the travel bag, started it up, and with a click he took a
commemoration photo.[2]

After Kazura confirmed the taken picture, he turned the camera off and
returned it to the bottom of the travel bag.

「Even so, it seems that the noble
unit eat quite a lavish meal. It’s hard to believe that we are in the middle of
food shortage.」(Kazura)

Valin and Valetta deeply nodded on Kazura’s remark after he finished
storing the digital camera.

This was an understandable reaction, on top of the three trays that were placed
on the table, there were 2 large loaves of bread, dried jerky with steamed
potato and thick oatmeal that was made from a lot of grain.

Furthermore, on the tray that seemed to be Kazura’s food was a slice of
smallish apple-like fruit and a copper goblet with fruit wine inside it.

Even if they make clamor of not having a decent meal, the fact that they do
were was vividly reflected in front of them.

「However, that they even had prepared our part too…… was a bit unexpected.」(Valetta)

Maybe it was either Isaac or Havel who was taking Valin and Valetta into
consideration and prepared the portion for both of them, for the sake of giving
a good impression to Kazura.

At any rate, it was useless to just look at the prepared food.

They sat in front of the tray that was prepared for 3 people and after
saying their gratitude for the food they began to consume the food.

「It’s been a while since I eat a bread.」(Kazura)

Kazura spoke this and began to tear up the bread to eat. He picked up the
bread on its side and pulled it.

But, no matter how much power he packed into his hand, the bread completely
didn’t get tore up.

How hard is this? While thinking this, Kazura watched Valetta and Valin.
Both of them were tearing up the bread from the side and eating it without any
problem.

「Hmm?」(Kazura)

Seeing this, Kazura was wondering if the way he tore them up was wrong and
this time he tightly grasped the bread with both of his hand and then pulled it
with all of his strength.

His hand was trembling as he invested all of his power into it and along
the way, while producing an unpleasant sound, the bread finally split into two
parts.

「Umm, doesn’t this bread look excessively hard to you?」(Kazura)

While looking at the halves of bread in his hand, Kazura spoke out while
looking at both Valetta and Valin who were deliciously eating the bread.
Valetta and Valin then became a bit confused.

「Eh, is that so? But it doesn’t seem to be that hard for me?」(Valetta)

「I also don’t find it especially hard.」(Valin)

Since the two found it strange, Kazura thought, “maybe it won’t be that
hard when eaten”, and then he try to bite at a piece of bread.

「……」(Kazura)

Hard.

The white part in the center was still acceptable, but the rim part was so
hard that Kazura began to doubt if this was really bread.

Since there was no other choice, Kazura dipped the bread halves on the
oatmeal and let it soak, until the hardness reduced to the extent where it was
edible for Kazura.

「(That reminds me, I had once read in an article that the black bread that
Soviet Union provided as ration was really hard beyond belief. This bread might
be something similar to it.)[3]」(Kazura)

While being deeply impressed, Kazura ate the bread with an expression that
he had understood something wonderful. While comparing her bread with Kazura’s bread,
Valetta effortlessly tore up a small piece from the stone hard bread with her
fingers and then ate it.

✦✧✦✧

When Kazura and his group were eating their dinner inside their tent, on a
different tent not far from it, Isaac and Havel were discussing about the
marching schedule tomorrow.

Just like inside Kazura’s tent, inside the tent was a candle lantern in the
ceiling suspended from the pillar and give a faint illumination inside the
tent.

「With our current marching speed, then we would arrive at the sunset two
days from today……?」(Isaac)

At the table that had several parchments placed on it, Isaac wrote down
today’s marching report with a quill pen while leaking out a groan.

According to the plan they had when they departed to Isteria, he was sure
that the marching would be completed in 2 days, however the actual situation
showed that it would only be completed in 3 days.

The cause for this tardiness was because they stopped marching considerably
early before sunset, since the camp preparation time took abnormally long.

Because most of his subordinate was of nobility background, they normally
left the everyday chores to their servants or slaves.

Because of this reason, in this marching practice where they performed all
the chores from pitching the tent to preparing the meal by themselves, the work
efficiency was the worst as they were doing tasks they weren’t familiar with.

The few soldiers who came from destitute low ranked nobility were an
exception, since they were used to do daily tasks like manual work or cooking.

Because they had routinely performed mundane tasks before they entered the
army, not only when they were practicing marching in the fields like today, but
also when they practiced in Isteria, they showed exceptional results. However,
this too was quite an ironic story.

「If it possible I wanted to reach Isteria by tomorrow’s noon, however if it’s
like this…… If we marched at night then we could reach Isteria at the morning
the day after tomorrow, however……」(Havel)

Havel let out a sigh at his own words. it was a pointless to discuss this
further so he dropped his shoulder.

If it was just them alone then they could have performed it, but it would
be impossible to force Kazura who was accompanying them to do this.

If only they brought along servants, although this came to his mind, Havel
just buried this thoughts without paying attention to it.

「Even so, the problem is about after we arrive at Isteria. It won’t be
possible to arrange meetings between Nelson-sama with Greysior-sama in a short
span of time.」(Havel)

「That’s right. As soon as we have returned to Isteria, I will soon request
an audience with Nelson. If I convince Nelson-sama with proper explanation
about the utmost importance of the meeting, then I think we wouldn’t need to
make Greysior-sama wait for long.」(Isaac)

For Isaac, even if it would interrupt the other public business, he wished
for Nelson to immediately conduct a meeting with Kazura.

However, only he and Havel had confirmed that Kazura is Greysior, Nelson
still didn’t know about this.

Isaac was worried that if due to some circumstances so that the meeting was
to suddenly get postponed, it could incur Kazura’s displeasure.

As if Havel had anticipated Isaac’s worry, he began to offer a proposal.

「Yes, however, if by some chance our report to Nelson-sama didn’t turn out
well, Greysior-sama might need to stay in Isteria. Therefore, until Nelson-sama
is ready to accept him, I think he could stay in my Leveson House’s mansion ……」(Havel)

「Rather than Nelson-sama’s mansion, we take Greysior-sama to your mansion?」(Isaac)

Isaac immediately made a frown at Havel’s proposal.

Although he didn’t know if Kazura could have a meeting with Nelson at once,
as Greysior he would still be treated like a foreign state guest.

「Yes. Although I think it would be proper to let him stay under Nelson-sama,
we will arrive at Isteria in the night of second day. If we ask for an
immediate meeting, then not only Nelson-sama, but Greysior-sama would also be
troubled… Of course this will be only if we received permission from
Greysior-sama and Nelson-sama’s acceptance.」(Havel)

「…… I see. Since the meeting won’t be finished quickly, it will be
unreasonable to push the meeting time at night. I think your proposal is
better. However, in that case rather than your mansion, my…… Slan House’s Mansion
would be a better option.」(Isaac)

The reason why Isaac said this was because of the matter of House
formality.

In this unit, Isaac is the Captain, while Havel was the Vice-Captain, also
from the point of pedigree, Isaac more or less had a better position than
Havel.

If someone think about this, then normally it would be obvious which was the
better choice.

「Ah, no, while that was indeed true, however…… When Captain returned to
Isteria, wouldn’t you be busy with either writing the report or negotiating the
meeting time with Nelson-sama? On the contrary, after we return I’ll have free
time until the next day, so I could immediately guide Greysior-sama to my house
when we arrived in Isteria. Because I could directly give instructions to the
people in the mansion, it would be somehow more convenient for Greysior-sama to
stay at my mansion.」(Havel)

“I will take him to my house.” When Isaac start saying this Havel quickly
refuted it with a bit in hurry.

But after he heard Havel’s reply, Isaac nodded, 「That is also true.」

Currently the only people who knew that Kazura is Greysior was Valetta,
Valin, Isaac and Havel.

Even if they bring him to the house, if they didn’t always pay attention to
him, then some problem could occur.

「Certainly, you have a point in what you said. If I relinquish all of my
plan after returning to Isteria and take Greysior-sama to my house, then I wouldn’t
be able to explain the reason to other people……」(Isaac)

At the present point, the fact that “Kazura is Greysior” is a top secret.

They explained to the soldiers in the unit that Kazura was a 『defecting noble from another country』, and concealed the fact that he is Greysior.

Although this fact was accepted by this unit, after they returned to
Isteria, either Isaac or Havel needed to always cling to Kazura until the time
he meet with Nelson.

It would be a serious problem if they foolishly took their eyes off, then
in that gap, people that had more influence than Isaac noticed Kazura and ask, 「Who is this person?」

Truthfully, it would be best if Isaac could accompany Kazura, but he didn’t
have any good excuse to abandon his duties.

If Isaac could say to Nelson directly that 「This person is Greysior-sama, please shelter him until the meeting time.」 then it could simplify things, however as expected t was impossible to hold
such discussion.

「Alright, then let’s talk with Greysior-sama tomorrow about this matter.」(Isaac)

Havel let out a sigh of relief when Isaac spoke so. I understand, he
replied.

✦✧✦✧

It was the second night after Kazura experienced his first camping with the
army.

Kazura, guided by Havel, was walking in the Main Street near the center of
Isteria.

On both sides of the Main Street, were numerous big mansions from stone
that give off an impression of being a stately mansion. Most of them were
single story houses, however two story houses could be seen here and there.

It was a very different scenery than the city’s outer districts, where 2 or
3 story buildings densely stood together. The scenery here was indescribably
calmer.

When they arrived at Isteria, Kazura quickly parted from Isaac and the
other soldiers. Currently the only soldier with him was only Havel.

Valetta and Valin followed behind Kazura and Havel.

Yesterday morning, when Havel asked if Kazura would like to spend a night
on his house, he certainly invited Valetta and Valin to go together with a
smile.

Kazura remembered strongly how Valetta and Valin were quite surprised, and while
being extremely grateful, they expressed their thanks.

「This is my mansion.」(Havel)

After they passed numerous large mansion, Havel stopped in front of a gate to
a majestic stone mansion with an elegant vast garden.

It was a single story house, but there was a long and narrow second story
building annexed near the edge of the house.

There was one man that stood before the gate, and when he saw Havel, he
bowed deeply to Havel, “Welcome home”, before he pushed the closed wooden gate
door open.

While the gate door opened, the
copper bell that was fastened near it began to ring.

Havel passed through the opened gate and continued to the garden inside,
Kazura’s group also followed him in succession.

When Kazura’s group was walking, the man who opened the gate, overtook him
from beside with a fast pace, and slowly flung open the mansion door with both
of his hands.